R. Yaakov Lipshitz and Heter Mechirah
…shemitah. He said over seventy five! By now that number has certainly doubled. My personal recommendation is if someone is working on a sefer on shemitah, unless it is incredible,…
A review of some Recent Torah Journals
…R. Y. Stal. Another good piece was from R. E. Blumenthal with new information about the Sefer Haterumah. Some other good pieces worth highlighting is one on Sefer Hatagin, on…
The Medical Training and Yet Another (Previously Unknown) Legacy of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, zt”l
…unfortunately Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski was critically ill. As hashgachah would have it, Menachem had happened upon a little-known precious work from 1997, entitled Sefer Ye’omar le-Yaakov u-le-Yisrael, compiled…
Another Obvious Mistake, More Grammatical Points, Bubbe Mayseh, Apostates and the Zohar
…The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book (Leiden and Boston, 2004), vol. 1, p. 503. [24] See Yitzhak Yudelov, “Al Sefarim, Madpisim, u-Mo”lim,” in Yosef Eliyahu Movshovitz, ed., Ha-Sefer (Jerusalem, 2008), vol….
Rav Gorelick, the Rav, and Revision by Omission
…more likely in this case that the reference is obscured because it doesn’t “pas” to quote halachic material in a sefer from an English book. Another example of revision by…
Carmi Horowitz: A Critique of Two New Reprints
…of the Perush on Sefer Yezirah of R. Yehudah b. Barzilai Barceloni. The following is based on an initial perusal of the two works. I have not read through the…
